Iran's Struggles for Social Justice: Economics, Agency, Justice, Activism

ISBN-13: 9783319442266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 323 str.

Peyman Vahabzadeh

Opis

This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises of the Iranian Revolution. The ideals of social justice and participatory democracy that galvanized a resilient nation in 1979 have been abandoned as an avaricious ruling elite has privatized the economy, abandoned social programs and subsidy payments for the poor, and suppressed the struggles of women, workers, students, and minorities for equality. At its core, Iran s Struggles for Social Justice seeks to educate and to develop a new discourse on social justice in Iran.
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Introduction: How to Approach This Book

Peyman Vahabzadeh

Historical and Conceptual Preparations for a Multidisciplinary Study of Social Justice in Iran

Peyman Vahabzadeh

Gazing Upon the Land of Oil Through the Prism of Structure, Elite Action, and Civil Society<

Hajar Amidian

The Unmaking of the Iranian Working Class since the 1990s

Mohammad Maljoo

Charity or Mass Mobilization? Public Religion and the Struggle for Economic Justice

Siavash Saffari

Iran’s Cooperative Movement: Agony of Development

Kaveh Sarmast

Social Justice; Anti-imperialist, Racist, Persian-centric, and Shi‘i-centric Discursive Formations of the Ideal Citizen and Iranian School Textbooks: A Social Biography Response

Amir Mirfakhraie

Justice Interrupted: The University and the Imam

Ardalan Rezamand

Ethical–Political Praxis: Social Justice and the Resistant Subject in Iran

Shokoufeh Sakhi

Intergenerational Memory in Children of the Jacaranda Tree

Nima Naghibi

Social Media as a Site of Transformative Politics: Iranian Women’s Online Contestations

Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani

Performative Agency: A Realization of an Objective Clash of “Social Justice” Discourses or a Requiem for a Subjective Silence

Sara Naderi

The Voice of the Workers: Iran’s Labour Movement and Reflections on the Project-Seasonal Workers’

Union of Abadan, 1979–1980

Mohammad Safavi

An Unfinished Odyssey: The Iranian Student Movement’s Struggles for Social Justice

Roozbeh Safshekan

The Left’s Contribution to Social Justice in Iran: A Brief Historical Overview

Afshin Matin-asgari

Iran: Multiple Sources of a Grassroots Social Democracy?

Mojtaba Mahdavi

Social Justice and Democracy in Iran: In Search of the Missing Link

Peyman Vahabzadeh

O autorze

Peyman Vahabzadeh is Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Victoria, Canada. His recent books include A Guerrilla Odyssey: Modernization, Secularism, Democracy and the Fadai Period of National Liberation in Iran, 1970-1979 (2010), Exilic Meditations: Essays on A Displaced Life (2013), and Parviz Sadri: A Political Biography (2015; in Persian).

Blurb

This interdisciplinary volume offers a range of studies spanning the various historical, political, legal, and cultural features of social justice in Iran, and proposes that the present-day realities of life in Iran could not be farther from the promises of the Iranian Revolution. The ideals of social justice and participatory democracy that galvanized a resilient nation in 1979 have been abandoned as an avaricious ruling elite has privatized the economy, abandoned social programs and subsidy payments for the poor, and suppressed the struggles of women, workers, students, and minorities for equality. At its core, Iran’s Struggle for Social Justice seeks to educate and to develop a new discourse on social justice in Iran.